5 WWE wrestlers who should've used their real names

#2 WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Steamboat

If he'd been a heel, the Dragon might've had a much more menacing name

This is kind of cheating. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat didn't start his career in WWE so it's not technically something that can be blamed on them, but his real name is worth putting on this list. Steamboat is one of the greatest professional wrestlers who ever lived. A former NWA World Champion, and possibly the greatest rival of Ric Flair, the WWE Hall of Famer certainly had an incredible career.

When he kickstarted his career, Eddie Graham noticed that Richard Blood bore an incredible resemblance to Sammy Steamboat, a wrestler from Hawaii. Graham actually felt that Rick Blood would've been a fantastic name for a wrestler, but only if he was going to be a heel.

Since he was a face, however, they couldn't use it. Therefore, Ricky Steamboat was born, and in some cases was billed as the son or nephew of Sammy Steamboat, though there is actually no blood relation there.

Still, a face couldn't be Rick Blood? Think of the promos. "My Blood's boiling now." "Rick Blood bleeds Red, White, and Blue." "Blood is flowing through the veins of (insert federation here)." Just saying, it's something that could've worked.